Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science

by Anapolitanos, Dionysios; Baltas, Aristides; Tsinorema, Stavroula; Berg, Jonathan; Diederich, Werner; Forge, John; Ginev, Dimitri; Grunbaum, Adolf; Kantorovitch, Aharon; Mainzer, Klaus; Majer, Ulrich; Manor, Ruth; Marconi, Diego; Marquis, Jean-Pierre; Mass

• ISBN13: 9780847681754
• ISBN10: 0847681750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-13
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This collection of original papers by an international group of distinguished philosophers of science impressively demonstrates the links among the philosophic points of view, areas of focus, and methods of treatment used in examining the many facets of scientific inquiry. It will be an indispensable collection for philosophers of science and scientists of various disciplines, including physicists, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Gerald J. Massey
Introduction	xi
Dionysios Anapolitanos
Aristides Baltas
Stavroula Tsinorema
Part I: Language and Logic
Understanding and Reference	2	(16)
Diego Marconi
On the Importance of Knowing What One Is Talking About	18	(6)
Jonathan Berg
Frege's Logicist Platonism	24	(16)
Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
Knowledge by ``Symbolic Constructions''	40	(25)
Ulrich Majer
Indiscriminate Confirmation and Relevance Logic	65	(11)
Werner Stelzner
Part II: Discovering and Explaining
Explanation and Mechanism: Reflections on the Ontic Conception of Explanation	76	(17)
John Forge
Choice, Time, and Methodology in Peirce's Philosophy of Nature	93	(24)
Helmut Pape
Chance and Explanation in Peirce's Cosmology	117	(5)
Ruth Manor
Creative Discovery Processes	122	(14)
Abaron Kantorovitch
The Hermeneutics of Scientific Discovery (A Comment on Aharon Kantorovich)	136	(8)
Dimitri Ginev
Part III: Experiments, Quasi-Experiments, and Their Constraints
Theory and Experiment in the Study of Brownian Motion and Radioactivity	144	(11)
Jan von Plato
How to Learn from Experiments	155	(3)
Manfred Stoeckler
Meaningless Numbers	158	(14)
Nicholas Rescher
What, if Anything, Is an Experiment in Mathematics?	172	(11)
Jean Paul von Bendegem
Epistemological Aspects of the Application of Mathematics to Itself	183	(13)
Jean-Pierre Marquis
Part IV: History and Philosophy of Science in Context
The Rise of Scientific Philosophy Revisited	196	(10)
Ulrich Roseberg
Models and Reality: An Historical Approach	206	(9)
Werner Diederich
Scientific Realism and History of Science: A Comment	215	(2)
Barbara Tuchanska
Methodological Relativism in the History of Science	217	(6)
Barbara D. Massey
Science and Culture: On the Logic of the Theory of Culture	223	(11)
Oswald Schwemmer
PART V: The Ways of the Mind
Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Mechanics, Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind	234	(18)
Klaus Mainzer
Does Mind Matter? Artificial Intelligence, Computational Neuroscience, and the Philosophy of Mind	252	(8)
Roger Vergauwen
In the Theoretician's Laboratory: Thought Experimenting as Mental Modeling	260	(13)
Nancy J. Nersessian
The Failure of Freud's Explanation of Counter-Wish Dreams	273	(14)
Adolf Grunbaum
Index	287